Azure Contracts in West Yorkshire

Microsoft Azure
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Azure skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 6 6
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 -3
Contract jobs citing Azure 125 217 247
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 12.61% 14.85% 13.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 41.25% 43.14% 39.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 171 184
10th Percentile £400 £363 £345
25th Percentile £441 £456 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +7.32% +2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
90th Percentile £669 £700 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £550 £510
% change year-on-year -9.09% +7.84% +2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £32.50 £17.64
Median % change year-on-year - +84.24% -
Yorkshire median hourly rate - £37.75 £17.64
% change year-on-year - +114.00% -55.90%

All Cloud Skills
West Yorkshire

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 303 503 618
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 30.58% 34.43% 33.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 368 470
10th Percentile £288 £356 £185
25th Percentile £400 £425 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £584
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
Yorkshire median daily rate £493 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -6.19% +5.00% +5.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 9
10th Percentile - £33.33 £17.25
25th Percentile - £36.44 £17.64
Median hourly rate £15.00 £43.25 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -65.32% +116.25% +2.56%
75th Percentile - £50.44 £22.40
90th Percentile - £53.78 £22.55
Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.00 £32.50 £18.88
% change year-on-year -53.85% +72.19% -3.21%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Job postings citing Azure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Azure in West Yorkshire

Azure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure in West Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for Azure in West Yorkshire

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in West Yorkshire

Azure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure in West Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Azure in West Yorkshire

Azure
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 12 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Leeds +2 109 £500 -9.09% 104
Bradford -6 6 £600 +9.09% 12
Huddersfield 0 2 £500 +33.33% 4
Azure
Yorkshire

Azure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (3.20%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (3.20%) Apache Spark
1 4 (3.20%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.40%) Apache
2 3 (2.40%) Umbraco
3 1 (0.80%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (0.80%) CMS
3 1 (0.80%) Confluence
3 1 (0.80%) Kentico
3 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (3.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.40%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (3.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.60%) SAP CRM
2 2 (1.60%) SAP IS-U
3 1 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.80%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 31 (24.80%) Azure DevOps
2 25 (20.00%) AWS
3 16 (12.80%) Akamai
3 16 (12.80%) Cloudflare
4 13 (10.40%) Entra ID
5 11 (8.80%) GCP
5 11 (8.80%) GitHub
6 10 (8.00%) Azure Data Factory
7 9 (7.20%) IaaS
8 8 (6.40%) Power Platform
9 7 (5.60%) PaaS
9 7 (5.60%) SaaS
10 6 (4.80%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (4.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (4.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 5 (4.00%) Serverless
12 4 (3.20%) Azure AKS
12 4 (3.20%) Azure Functions
12 4 (3.20%) Azure Service Bus
12 4 (3.20%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.00%) Firewall
2 7 (5.60%) DNS
3 6 (4.80%) Network Security
4 5 (4.00%) Wireshark
5 1 (0.80%) DHCP
5 1 (0.80%) Internet
5 1 (0.80%) LAN
5 1 (0.80%) VoIP
5 1 (0.80%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (8.80%) SQL Server
2 9 (7.20%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (7.20%) Relational Database
3 8 (6.40%) Data Lake
4 7 (5.60%) Power BI
4 7 (5.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 6 (4.80%) Big Data
5 6 (4.80%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (3.20%) GIS
6 4 (3.20%) Hadoop
6 4 (3.20%) InterSystems Cache
6 4 (3.20%) MySQL
6 4 (3.20%) Redis
6 4 (3.20%) Tableau
7 3 (2.40%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (2.40%) Apache Hive
7 3 (2.40%) BigQuery
7 3 (2.40%) NoSQL
7 3 (2.40%) Spark SQL
8 2 (1.60%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 9 (7.20%) Git
2 8 (6.40%) Jenkins
2 8 (6.40%) JIRA
3 6 (4.80%) GitLab
4 5 (4.00%) Team Foundation Server
5 4 (3.20%) AppScan
5 4 (3.20%) Burp Suite
5 4 (3.20%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.60%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.80%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.80%) Maven
7 1 (0.80%) Selenium
7 1 (0.80%) Visual Studio
General
1 27 (21.60%) Social Skills
2 13 (10.40%) Public Sector
2 13 (10.40%) Retail
3 8 (6.40%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (3.20%) Banking
4 4 (3.20%) Finance
4 4 (3.20%) Health Technology
5 2 (1.60%) Local Government
6 1 (0.80%) Automotive
6 1 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (20.80%) Architect
2 23 (18.40%) Developer
3 17 (13.60%) Azure Engineer
4 12 (9.60%) Data Engineer
4 12 (9.60%) Solutions Architect
5 11 (8.80%) Project Manager
6 7 (5.60%) DevOps Engineer
7 6 (4.80%) Azure Data Engineer
7 6 (4.80%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 6 (4.80%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 6 (4.80%) Cloud Engineer
7 6 (4.80%) Security Architect
7 6 (4.80%) Senior
8 5 (4.00%) Analyst
8 5 (4.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 5 (4.00%) Data Architect
8 5 (4.00%) Enterprise Architect
8 5 (4.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (4.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 5 (4.00%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.60%) .NET
2 5 (4.00%) .NET Core
2 5 (4.00%) Kafka
2 5 (4.00%) SailPoint
3 4 (3.20%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (3.20%) Node.js
3 4 (3.20%) SignalR
3 4 (3.20%) Web Services
4 3 (2.40%) Blazor
5 2 (1.60%) Middleware
6 1 (0.80%) ADO
6 1 (0.80%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.80%) Gherkin
6 1 (0.80%) HTML
6 1 (0.80%) J2EE
6 1 (0.80%) LDAP
6 1 (0.80%) OAuth
6 1 (0.80%) PostGIS
6 1 (0.80%) SAML
6 1 (0.80%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.00%) NHS
2 6 (4.80%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 5 (4.00%) Public Cloud
4 4 (3.20%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.40%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.40%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.80%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.80%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.80%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.80%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.80%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.20%) Windows
2 7 (5.60%) Linux
3 6 (4.80%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.80%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (37.60%) DevOps
2 28 (22.40%) Agile
3 20 (16.00%) Data Modelling
4 19 (15.20%) Migration
5 18 (14.40%) CI/CD
6 15 (12.00%) Containerisation
6 15 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (10.40%) Business Intelligence
7 13 (10.40%) Continuous Integration
8 12 (9.60%) Analytics
8 12 (9.60%) Stakeholder Management
9 11 (8.80%) Data Engineering
9 11 (8.80%) Infrastructure as Code
9 11 (8.80%) RAD
10 10 (8.00%) Cybersecurity
10 10 (8.00%) Data Pipeline
11 9 (7.20%) ETL
11 9 (7.20%) OWASP
11 9 (7.20%) Project Delivery
12 8 (6.40%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 29 (23.20%) SQL
2 21 (16.80%) Python
3 14 (11.20%) PowerShell
4 7 (5.60%) Bash
5 6 (4.80%) JavaScript
6 4 (3.20%) C#
7 3 (2.40%) Scala
8 2 (1.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (1.60%) Java
8 2 (1.60%) PHP
9 1 (0.80%) ABAP
9 1 (0.80%) Bicep
9 1 (0.80%) Go
9 1 (0.80%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 9 (7.20%) SC Cleared
1 9 (7.20%) Security Cleared
2 7 (5.60%) Degree
3 5 (4.00%) Azure Certification
4 4 (3.20%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.60%) CCNA
5 2 (1.60%) CCNP
6 1 (0.80%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.80%) CISM
6 1 (0.80%) CISSP
6 1 (0.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.80%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.80%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.40%) QA
2 3 (2.40%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.60%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.80%) GDPR
4 1 (0.80%) GRC
4 1 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 17 (13.60%) Docker
2 13 (10.40%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.40%) HDFS
4 2 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.80%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (14.40%) Kubernetes
2 16 (12.80%) Terraform
3 5 (4.00%) Ansible
3 5 (4.00%) Progress Chef
3 5 (4.00%) Prometheus
3 5 (4.00%) Puppet
4 4 (3.20%) Grafana
4 4 (3.20%) Graylog
4 4 (3.20%) HP Fortify
4 4 (3.20%) Nessus
4 4 (3.20%) WebInspect
5 2 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 28 (22.40%) Microsoft
2 15 (12.00%) F5
3 7 (5.60%) Brio
4 6 (4.80%) Databricks
5 5 (4.00%) CyberArk
5 5 (4.00%) SAP
6 4 (3.20%) Checkmarx
6 4 (3.20%) Google
6 4 (3.20%) Splunk
6 4 (3.20%) Veracode
7 3 (2.40%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.40%) VMware
8 2 (1.60%) Oracle
9 1 (0.80%) Ariba
9 1 (0.80%) Barracuda Networks
9 1 (0.80%) Cisco
9 1 (0.80%) ESRI
9 1 (0.80%) Palantir
9 1 (0.80%) Qualys
9 1 (0.80%) Rapid7